All our Courses and Diplomas at Pitman Training have been developed to give you practical hands-on experience, so that you can put your skills in to practice, as soon as you've completed the course. With courses, seminars and diplomas designed for specific careers, and workplace requirements, we're sure there's an option to suit you.

Types of Training

Personal development allows you to develop your skills and qualities to reach your career goals and aspirations. Maximise your potential by ensuring you maintain a clear development path.

If you're looking to progress your career, refresh your skills or simply want to learn something new, our courses, diplomas and seminars will help you gain valuable practical experience that is instantly transferable to the workplace.

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All our Courses and Diplomas at Pitman Training have been developed to give you practical hands-on experience, so that you can put your skills in to practice, as soon as you've completed the course. With courses, seminars and diplomas designed for specific careers, and workplace requirements, we're sure there's an option to suit you.

Our Centres

Are you looking for your closest learning centre? With around 100 locations available you should find a place to study that's close to you. We're not only based in the UK and Republic of Ireland but internationally as well.

If we don't have a location that's near to you, then you may want to consider our distance learning option.

All our Courses and Diplomas at Pitman Training have been developed to give you practical hands-on experience, so that you can put your skills in to practice, as soon as you've completed the course. With courses, seminars and diplomas designed for specific careers, and workplace requirements, we're sure there's an option to suit you.

Types of Training

Personal development allows you to develop your skills and qualities to reach your career goals and aspirations. Maximise your potential by ensuring you maintain a clear development path.

If you're looking to progress your career, refresh your skills or simply want to learn something new, our courses, diplomas and seminars will help you gain valuable practical experience that is instantly transferable to the workplace.

Learn English

All our Courses and Diplomas at Pitman Training have been developed to give you practical hands-on experience, so that you can put your skills in to practice, as soon as you've completed the course. With courses, seminars and diplomas designed for specific careers, and workplace requirements, we're sure there's an option to suit you.

Our Centres

Are you looking for your closest learning centre? With around 100 locations available you should find a place to study that's close to you. We're not only based in the UK and Republic of Ireland but internationally as well.

If we don't have a location that's near to you, then you may want to consider our distance learning option.

Project Management Diploma

This diploma has been created to help you learn all the skills required to effectively plan, progress and complete a project. You'll cover topics that are aligned to renowned the Prince2 methodology.

Is this for you?

This diploma is ideal if you want to add to your existing skillset or are looking to work in a role which demands top-level organisation and project management skills such as a Project Manager, Project Planner, Planning Manager, Team Leader, PA, EA, Office Manager or Virtual Assistant.

About this diploma

Every project a business carries out is unique. They can vary from small scale, right through to the more complex and diverse, involving multiple teams and locations. Anyone who leads a project, no matter the size, should possess high-level project management skills.

This Project Management Diploma has been created to help you learn to manage a project successfully through its initiation, planning, progression and closure. As well as this you will develop other skills such as leadership, communication, risk management and financial management.

Once you have successfully completed your Diploma you will receive a globally recognised Pitman Training certification. You will also be well placed to go on and undertake the Prince2 Foundation examination* should you wish to.

* Please note this examination will need to be arranged and paid for separately at an appropriate Prince2 registered examination centre.

Aims and Objectives

The Project Management Diploma is ideal if you’d like to learn project management practices and skills which adhere to the Prince2 standards and methods.

Courses Included

Prince2 Foundation

In this PRINCE2® Foundation course you’ll start by looking at principles of organising and starting up a project, You’ll work through initiating a project, assessing risk, monitoring progress, managing change right through to closing a project.

Project Management Fundamentals

Split into four engaging parts, this course takes you through the full life cycle of a project in terms of defining what it is, planning every aspect, implementation, completion and evaluation of a project.

Excel

Microsoft Excel is the world’s most popular spreadsheet program. This course is suitable for beginner to intermediate level. Over 10 self-paced lessons you’ll learn how to format your spreadsheet to best display your information, handle simple and complex formulas, insert charts, learn how to insert functions such as IFERROR and much much more.

alternative Excel Expert

Our Excel Expert level course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to use this popular spreadsheet programme to an advanced level. You can choose whether you’d like to study 2013 or 2010 and over a series of self-paced lessons you’ll learn how to perform tasks such as conditional formatting, recording and running macros, working with pivot tables and using statistical functions.

Outlook

This flexible study Outlook course takes you through everything you need to use this popular email system as a work tool, from navigation and views through contacts and appointments, to tasks and folders.

Costing and Pricing

Elective Courses

In addition to the core courses, you also choose two additional elective courses. Below is a list of recommended courses but there is a wider list available. Please speak to a Course Advisor for full details of how best to tailor this Diploma to your requirements.

Communications in an Organisation

This e-learning course is different to most communication courses in that it focuses on the way that communications and information are managed within an organisation rather than personal communication techniques.

Access

An understanding of how to utilise Microsoft Access to its best is a highly worthwhile skill to have at your command. This is a popular database application that is widely used across many employment sectors.

Prince2 Practitioner

This is a great course to solidify and expand your existing skills. It follows the Prince2® standards and methodology and teaches you how to become an expert Project Manager who can create, manage and complete a project.

Team Development

This course focuses on how to create and develop a successful team. From getting the most out of existing team members, recruiting new ones, what makes a successful team, team development, and ways of communicating with a team.

Pre-Requisites

There are no pre-requisites required for this diploma

Finance Options

Wherever possible our training is tailored to your needs. The cost of our training programmes depend on the course(s) you choose and varies according to duration and breadth. Rest assured we have a number of payment options available to ensure the cost of training is affordable and can be worked alongside your other financial commitments. Common ways people fund their training include: –

Self-Funded:

Flexible payment plans to help you spread the cost* available at many of our centres;

You could opt to pay upfront.

Company Funded:

Requesting funding from your employers needn’t be a daunting task. Many employers support and encourage their employees with their professional development and consider it a worthwhile investment to fund any training required.